Anniversary: Ratification of the 13th Amendment

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Ratified Dec. 6th, 1865.

Declaring independence from England was a very big deal, but in terms of the progress of freedom in North America, the 13th, 14th and 15 Amendments loom much larger.


Amendment XIII

Section 1.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/13th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20on%20Ja nuary,within%20the%20United%20States%2C%20or

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There's "talk" about stopping 13th Amendment forced prison slave labor, and, of course, Repugs/conservatives/racists/BigCorp are objecting.

Capitalists "Constitutionally" shitting on slave Labor is even more profitable than shitting on non-prison Labor.

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convict leasing in our time, but some of them are pretrial detainees.


Legal experts said forcing defendants to work for free might violate their constitutional rights. The 13th Amendment (https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html) bans slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for convicts. That’s why prison labor programs are legal. But many defendants sent to programs such as CAAIR have not yet been convicted of crimes, and some later have their cases dismissed.


“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Noah Zatz, a professor specializing in labor law at UCLA, said when presented with Reveal’s findings. “That’s a very strong 13th Amendment violation case.”
https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/

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